Dr. Caterina Domeneghini

Biography

Caterina Domeneghini holds a DPhil in English from the University of Oxford. She has worked extensively on English Classics, with a dissertation addressing questions concerning classic world literature from the perspective of Victorian autodidact-turned-publisher J. M. Dent, the founder of Everyman’s Library. Domeneghini was awarded the Marjorie Bond Rare Book Collection Research Fellowship at the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which enabled her to conduct months of fieldwork in the J. M. Dent & Sons Records in 2022. She has trained in Classics and classical reception at University College London (BA) and the University of Cambridge (MPhil). As a freelancer, she has written for various literary magazines in both English and Italian, with her literary criticism appearing in outlets such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Artribune, Public Books, and Asymptote. Her forthcoming book, provisionally titled 'The Century of Everyman: A History of Everyman’s Library, From Founding to Present,' will be published by Princeton University Press. Domeneghini's research interests include print cultures of the late 19th and 20th centuries, world literature, translation studies, modernism, middlebrow classics, and classical reception studies. She has written extensively on grassroots engagements with classical antiquity and the so-called Western canon, with numerous publications in journals like the Classical Receptions Journal and Literary Imagination.

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